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House must revote on approved final GOP tax bill, fearing Byrd Rule objections
The House will revote on the bill it passed to much fanfare Tuesday afternoon, fearing procedural violations in the version it already passed.
The vote will likely take place Wednesday. The Senate is still expected to take up the bill later Tuesday evening.
Several provisions in the House-passed overhaul appear to violate the procedural rules of the Senate, according to Democrats, and the Senate will need to vote on whether to waive the rules and keep those provisions in the bill, which takes 60 votes. Republicans will most likely lose those votes, striking the contested provisions from the bill and changing the language of the legislation. After the bill gets a final stamp of approval in the Senate, the bill will return to the house for a revote, likely Wednesday morning.
One possible violation involves the use of 529 savings accounts for home-schooling, and private elementary and high schools. Another exempts colleges from a new endowment tax if they have fewer than 500 students paying tuition. Another objection appears technical in nature, as the bill repeals a section by its number, instead of the title of the section.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-tax-bill-house-passes-tax-reform-bill-live-updates/
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Republicans will eliminate those small provisions, and the revote will pass with the same count as the one today.
JDC
(10,129 posts)Which is their bread and butter
global1
(25,253 posts)that a lot of Repug House Members left D.C. to start their holiday vacation and they didn't have enough votes for this second re-vote.